Penn State’s board of trustees fired Paterno on Nov. 9 because it felt the coach didn’t go far enough in alerting authorities after an assistant coach told Paterno he saw Sandusky assaulting a young boy in the football building showers in March 2002.

Sandusky told the newspaper he and Paterno never spoke about the alleged 2002 incident or a 1998 child molestation complaint investigated by the Penn State campus police. “I never talked to him about either one,” Sandusky said in Saturday’s story.